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Phalcon Multi module and micro application rest api

Hi,

I'm building a multi module. I have an Application named frontend and a REST API in micro application. But I have a question about the way to create my rest api. It's necessary to use a micro app in multi module ? Because I can't define the routes for my rest api because it has't controller, just an index.php.

Then... It's possible to use micro module to build my rest api in a multi module ? Or I have to build my rest api in a controller class ?

Here is my architecture.

multiple/
├── common
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── config.php
│   │   ├── modules.php
│   │   └── services.php
│   ├── library
│   │   └── Elements.php
│   │   └── Tools.php
│   │   └── PhpMailer.php
│   ├── models
│   │   └── User.php
├── modules
│   ├── frontend
│   │   ├── Module.php
│   │   ├── controllers
│   │   │   ├── ControllerBase.php
│   │   │   └── IndexController.php
│   │   ├── plugins
│   │   │   └── SecurityPlugin.php
│   │   │   └── NotFoundPlugin.php
│   │   ├── cache
│   │   │   └── cache1.php
│   │   │   └── cache2.php
│   │   └── views
│   │       ├── index
│   │       │   └── index.phtml
│   │       └── index.phtml
│   │
│   └── api
│       └── index.php
│       └── Module.php
│       
├── .htaccess
├── index.html
└── public
    └── index.php
    └── .htaccess


145.0k
edited Apr '16

As i wrote earlier you can't have controllers in micro application. If you want controllers then use full apllication. Did you even need this api ? Why just not using full aplication and make it rest ? Micro application is just for small applications, fast creating api, adding api to our current application etc. If you gonna build something bigger from scratch then use full application i think.



5.7k

Actually you can have controllers in micro, it's just not done automatically, see Phalcon\Mvc\Micro\Collection https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/micro.html#using-controllers-as-handlers



145.0k

Oh, didn't know about it :D



41.3k

Actually I have a single application and my rest api is in RestController and each action is a web service. But I think this not the best way to respect the REST architecture because my REST API is in my Phalcon Web Application. That is why I want to pull out my REST API and build my REST API in a micro application. My REST API and my Web Application use the same models folder and the same database, and I don't want to duplicate my models. And I ask this question in this forum to get some advices about that.



145.0k

So your normal application just render views etc? Then okay it is good idea to create separate micro/medium application to be just rest API.



41.3k
edited Apr '16

I don't understand the behavior of the PostController in the medium. How the PostController can communicate with the micro index.php ? And what is this action ?

 public function show($slug)
    {
        // ...
    }

I'm supposed code my web service in this function ?



145.0k

PostController don't communicate with index.php, it's using di as always and everywhere. First read docs, how phalcon works etc and then ask the questions. All you have in docs: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/micro.html#using-controllers-as-handlers.

Just ask question what you don't understand. This action is just executed when you access:

/posts/show/something



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edited Apr '16

I would also recommend reading the docs about collections, but here is how i accomplished the task with multiple collections :

// Create the main collections object $collections = (object) array();

// Create the new collection $collections->RestApiCollection = new MicroCollection();

// Sets the controller (class) for this collection with lazy loading $collections->RestApiCollection->setHandler('RestApiController', true);

// Define a route to match /users with the method GET and to call a function called show_users in the RestApiController class if the route is matched $collections->RestApiCollection->get('/users', 'show_users');

// Go through each collection and mount it to the app foreach ($collections as $collection):

// Mount collection $this->app->mount($collection);

endforeach;